Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 81 80
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 -26
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,088 1,734 2,298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 3.51% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 3.96% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 823 1,361
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -27 1,804 £75,000 - 2,338
UK excluding London -23 1,145 £67,500 -3.57% 1,139
Work from Home -20 850 £67,500 -3.57% 1,128
London -16 792 £85,000 +6.25% 1,483
North of England -52 369 £75,000 +7.14% 327
South East +34 324 £65,000 -7.14% 212
North West -53 198 £77,500 +10.71% 178
South West -12 142 £65,000 +8.33% 119
Midlands -44 106 £72,155 +3.08% 126
North East +15 93 £65,000 +49.86% 48
Yorkshire +7 78 £69,310 -0.99% 104
West Midlands -38 77 £80,000 +14.29% 76
Northern Ireland -17 70 £60,000 +33.33% 96
Wales -23 68 £60,000 +15.38% 18
East of England -50 37 £60,100 -3.84% 93
Scotland -50 33 £60,000 -22.58% 153
East Midlands -58 29 £65,000 - 49
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (2.11%) Confluence
2 31 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.96%) Apache
4 15 (0.72%) CMS
5 12 (0.57%) IIS
6 11 (0.53%) Camunda
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.34%) JBoss
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.34%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.14%) DNN
12 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.096%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,069 (51.20%) AWS
2 887 (42.48%) Azure
3 327 (15.66%) GCP
4 267 (12.79%) Serverless
5 265 (12.69%) GitHub
6 199 (9.53%) SaaS
7 182 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
8 150 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
9 127 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
10 125 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 121 (5.80%) Amazon S3
12 104 (4.98%) GitHub Copilot
13 95 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
14 89 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
15 78 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
16 67 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
18 59 (2.83%) Azure AKS
19 51 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 50 (2.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.15%) Broadband
2 21 (1.01%) Network Security
3 13 (0.62%) DMARC
4 12 (0.57%) DNS
4 12 (0.57%) MQTT
5 10 (0.48%) AMQP
5 10 (0.48%) HTTP
6 8 (0.38%) VPN
7 7 (0.34%) Internet
8 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.29%) RFID
9 5 (0.24%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.14%) DHCP
10 3 (0.14%) Firewall
10 3 (0.14%) LTE
10 3 (0.14%) NAS
10 3 (0.14%) SAN
10 3 (0.14%) SSL
11 1 (0.048%) WebEx
11 1 (0.048%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 315 (15.09%) MongoDB
2 231 (11.06%) PostgreSQL
3 208 (9.96%) NoSQL
4 165 (7.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 154 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
6 115 (5.51%) MySQL
7 111 (5.32%) SQL Server
8 93 (4.45%) Relational Database
9 69 (3.30%) Redis
10 59 (2.83%) DynamoDB
11 43 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.53%) Big Data
13 19 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.77%) Pinecone
15 15 (0.72%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.57%) Db2
16 12 (0.57%) DTS
17 9 (0.43%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.43%) Chroma
18 8 (0.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 296 (14.18%) Git
2 190 (9.10%) GitLab
3 163 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 68 (3.26%) TeamCity
5 66 (3.16%) JIRA
6 64 (3.07%) JUnit
7 55 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 41 (1.96%) Cypress.io
9 37 (1.77%) Mockito
10 36 (1.72%) Maven
11 31 (1.48%) Claude Code
12 26 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.15%) Selenium
14 17 (0.81%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.81%) Spock
15 14 (0.67%) JMeter
15 14 (0.67%) Postman
15 14 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 13 (0.62%) Vite
17 10 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 538 (25.77%) Finance
2 423 (20.26%) Social Skills
3 234 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 203 (9.72%) Banking
5 164 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 157 (7.52%) Law
7 145 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
8 130 (6.23%) Retail
9 88 (4.21%) Legal
10 84 (4.02%) Financial Institution
11 62 (2.97%) Back Office
12 60 (2.87%) Marketing
13 42 (2.01%) Aerospace
14 36 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.48%) Games
16 28 (1.34%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.86%) Advertising
17 18 (0.86%) Front Office
18 12 (0.57%) Aviation
19 11 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 769 (36.83%) Developer
2 504 (24.14%) Senior
3 375 (17.96%) Software Engineer
4 360 (17.24%) Lead
5 320 (15.33%) Architect
6 200 (9.58%) .NET Developer
7 193 (9.24%) Senior Developer
8 168 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 163 (7.81%) Java Developer
10 137 (6.56%) Java Engineer
11 129 (6.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 126 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
13 110 (5.27%) Solutions Architect
14 102 (4.89%) Principal Engineer
15 80 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
16 79 (3.78%) Software Developer
17 72 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
18 71 (3.40%) Lead Developer
19 66 (3.16%) Technical Leader
20 60 (2.87%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 536 (25.67%) .NET
2 456 (21.84%) React
3 430 (20.59%) Node.js
4 394 (18.87%) Terraform
5 382 (18.30%) Spring
6 345 (16.52%) Spring Boot
7 316 (15.13%) RESTful
8 289 (13.84%) REST
9 287 (13.75%) Kafka
10 239 (11.45%) ASP.NET
11 227 (10.87%) AngularJS
12 219 (10.49%) .NET Core
13 210 (10.06%) Vue
14 194 (9.29%) ASP.NET Core
15 121 (5.80%) Blazor
16 102 (4.89%) ASP.NET Web API
17 96 (4.60%) HTML
18 92 (4.41%) CSS
19 91 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
20 87 (4.17%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 667 (31.94%) Cloud Native
2 383 (18.34%) Distributed Systems
3 166 (7.95%) Product Ownership
4 117 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
5 105 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 58 (2.78%) Public Cloud
8 54 (2.59%) AI Agents
9 50 (2.39%) Virtual Team
10 48 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
11 44 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (2.06%) e-Learning
13 29 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
14 23 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
15 22 (1.05%) Management Information System
16 21 (1.01%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.96%) Mainframe
17 20 (0.96%) Mobile App
17 20 (0.96%) Private Cloud
18 19 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.90%) Linux
2 47 (2.25%) Windows
3 28 (1.34%) CentOS
3 28 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.96%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.34%) Debian
7 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.29%) AIX
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,118 (53.54%) CI/CD
2 1,009 (48.32%) Agile
3 752 (36.02%) Software Engineering
4 734 (35.15%) DevOps
5 576 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 548 (26.25%) Mentoring
7 488 (23.37%) Event-Driven
8 457 (21.89%) AI
9 441 (21.12%) Test Automation
10 422 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 422 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 395 (18.92%) Containerisation
12 376 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
13 317 (15.18%) Technical Leadership
14 301 (14.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 296 (14.18%) Scrum
16 256 (12.26%) Architectural Patterns
17 243 (11.64%) Observability
18 238 (11.40%) TDD
19 228 (10.92%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 748 (35.82%) Java
2 573 (27.44%) C#
3 507 (24.28%) SQL
4 459 (21.98%) JavaScript
5 431 (20.64%) Python
6 406 (19.44%) TypeScript
7 87 (4.17%) Go
8 57 (2.73%) Ruby
9 45 (2.16%) C++
10 37 (1.77%) Bash
11 32 (1.53%) PHP
12 26 (1.25%) Bicep
12 26 (1.25%) PowerShell
13 24 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.05%) Rust
15 21 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 20 (0.96%) Scala
17 16 (0.77%) Groovy
18 15 (0.72%) C
19 14 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 330 (15.80%) Security Cleared
2 228 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 174 (8.33%) Degree
4 92 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 84 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 83 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.53%) CISSP
9 31 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.91%) CISM
11 17 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.48%) MBA
15 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.34%) PhD
17 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
19 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (10.82%) QA
2 95 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.77%) WCAG
4 35 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.39%) GDPR
6 20 (0.96%) NIST
7 19 (0.91%) Data Quality
8 18 (0.86%) NCSC
9 11 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.43%) GRC
11 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.24%) PSD2
16 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 579 (27.73%) Docker
2 41 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.48%) NDS
4 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 643 (30.80%) Kubernetes
2 108 (5.17%) Grafana
3 103 (4.93%) Ansible
4 52 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.29%) Argo
5 27 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (1.01%) Puppet
7 16 (0.77%) Kibana
8 9 (0.43%) Cilium
9 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.24%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.19%) Packer
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.14%) Rancher
13 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.048%) Consul
13 1 (0.048%) Control-M
13 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.048%) logstash
Vendors
1 337 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 97 (4.65%) Google
3 73 (3.50%) Oracle
4 48 (2.30%) Splunk
5 43 (2.06%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.39%) Okta
7 26 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 26 (1.25%) ForgeRock
7 26 (1.25%) IBM
8 24 (1.15%) AppDynamics
9 22 (1.05%) Databricks
10 17 (0.81%) OneLogin
11 14 (0.67%) Adobe
11 14 (0.67%) OpenText
11 14 (0.67%) SAP
12 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.62%) Mistral
12 13 (0.62%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.53%) ServiceNow